"Go to next table" should go to games with the least time remaining to make ones move

[Robur]

Dear BGA,

I received 3 time penalties and was kicked out from 2 games recently only because I had many turn-based games to make my moves and after making move on one the "Go to next table" button took me to games that had days time remaining, not the ones with only few hours...

This is not good, I have been wondering what is the order of next table on BGA?

I could easily have made my move on those 3 games in time if it would have came up. Instead I could not find them, while next table button took me to games with even 15 days time remaining... Time to make my move is not visible on games in progress list eather, so it's not fair this way.

"Go to next table" should go to games with the least time remaining to make ones move.

This would allow to play many turn-based at one time and always first make the moves on games with the least time remaining to avoid being skipped. I had some 60 turn-based on-going, and wasted my time doing 5 days 7 days or even 15 days remaining moves while other games where running out of time without me having any chance noticing it...

I don't have time always to do 50 moves on one session, so I would suggest you change the order of "Go to next table" priority. Now I guess it's going to take you to the table where it's your turn in order of which one came first, right? Making moves on 2 days time and 15 days time makes a huge difference when on travel and with limited online time. I could not find all 2 days time games no matter how I check when quickly making 30 moves out of 50-60 games...
You are running out of time notification on email also comes way too late, it's already too late when it appears, it should come more early. That was the only way to find the game where I run out of time, but too late...

Please consider this to make the remaining time limit more easy for players to follow, thanks.

[dudi2]

I suggest coloring the arrow on the left of each game on the "turn-based"-game list depending on relative time left (somewhat similar to the coloring of prestige items on tournaments):

e.g. for a game with 6 days + 24h00 / turn:

<2 day left: red (<33% of time)
<4 days left: orange (<66% of time)
>4 days left: green (>66% of time)

Then one can see instantly, on which games one can gain additional time by making the next move (in this example +24h00 / turn). If game is a tournament game, making a move on games which are red is very important to avoid running out of time, as no time will be added per turn.

So everyone can easily decide, if he has enough time to play new games. If too many games are colored red, on should avoid starting new games, till the amount of these games reduced.

[Liallan]

So everyone can easily decide, if he has enough time to play new games. If too many games are colored red, on should avoid starting new games, till the amount of these games reduced.

Yeah, totally agree.

I don't want to start this out on the wrong foot, but I have to wonder if playing 50-60 games at once is just too much. Let's just assume those are all one turn per day games, it means you're expected to be there once a day for each game, and if you can't make it, then it's too many games. That's a bit literal, since it's actually 24 hours since the prior person took their turn, so in a 4 player game it could be 2 or 3 days before your turn is even up. But the point remains, if you can't keep up, maybe it's too many games.

Now getting back to the point being made, though... I agree it would be nice to have something telling us our time left. I assume they come up in the order we came on turn. If all games were 1 turn a day, that would in theory work, but they may be coming up in ID order or who knows. On the one hand, I like having to do them in order cause it forces people to take turns on losing games before they can play others, but on the other hand, I like picking which to do first, or in some cases, which to do last cause I might want to think a while. Adding something for the amount of time left could be useful. (I like for the system to know how quickly I got to a game and I want them all to remain green, >4 days. )

Color coding would work as long as everyone knows what it means, although as a general rule red tends to mean bad, like a warning signal or something. I've gotten into the habit of just going to the open games, rather than hitting "next game" and getting a surprise, and big colors or just a big number of days/hours left would be useful. Adding the little "who's on turn" icon to the game list page was a very nice addition and this seems like a nice next step to that.

[Robur]

Yep, it would be good to have either time left icon on the games on progress list or then it turn yellow/orange when less than half time left and red when less than 25% time left. Could be more easy to follow what games to make move on.

I have noticed some people having even 100 turn-based games on going... I just got too "hungry" when there was not enough moves to do, now I'm struckling to finish some of the "really" long turn games that take month or even few with 4-5 players. But anyways, I could have easily done all the 3 moves if I had known where I'm low on time. Cheers.

[brisdaz]

"Go to next table" should go to games with the least time remaining to make ones move.

+1

Has this been fixed?

[fafa-fr]

"Go to next table" should go to games with the least time remaining to make ones move.

+1

Has this been fixed?

I didn't use it myself, but apparently it has:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10863

4. Now you are always redirected in priority to the table with the less remaining time to think.

[sourisdudesert]

I confirm the suggestiin has been implemented!